Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.

Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

Life is easier lived when lived for others.

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

The shot was so precise that the bullet went out his forehead and shattered a whisky bottle against the wall behind the counter.

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

Consistency for me is everything.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.